Currently Reading Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers By Lois P. Frankel see related

friday the 13th this year was a monumental day for me.  i finished my last undergraduate course, and had my last day at my internship.  college has finally come to an end .. granted i already walked in commencement at the end of spring .. but it didn't feel real until i finished this last course.  i don't think its sunk in yet .. and it probably won't till i move out in 2 weeks .. i've lived on this campus for four years - dorms to apts .. never off campus.  every path, every bend, every building and street hold memories for me - the good, the bad, and the ugly.  it's been an interesting chapter .. i made good choices and bad .. all of which have made me who i am.  i am glad that i had the option of living away from home - i think everyone should experience being on their own for a while .. and figuring things out .. and making some mistakes as well.  they only add character.  i am also thankful for the people that were brought into my life in these past few years..

and as this chapter ends .. a new one begins tomorrow ... i start training for booz allen tomorrow as a consulting analyst .. i'm excited and scared for my first day.  scared .. because it's not college anymore .. every decision counts .. with classes, we kinda had the option of skipping it, and sleeping in .. and being irresponsible.  cramming the night before an exam, usually worked out.  not anymore.  everything will be different now..

but i am excited .. because it is a new beginning.  i'm excited .. because i want to do things differently.  i want my life to go in a different path.  i will be successful.. i will do it all .. i believe i can.  =)

gnite.  yes, this is now my new bedtime because i have a ridiculous commute to nova every morning.  boo! =(

Currently Watching This Girl's Life By James Woods, Juliette Marquis, Kip Pardue, Tomas Arana, Michael Rapaport see related

so, the question of the day is as follows - how many of you that are in long term/"serious" relationships .. think that you would be at that same point in your relationship if you had chosen to not be physically intimate with that person?  ladies .. do you think your men would've stuck around (and if so, for how long) without get any physical incentives .. or any hope of it in the near future?  and men (assuming you are sexually active to begin with), how long before you would stop chasing someone without that added benefit?  and i do realize that if two people think they are going to be together forever/get married, etc .. they may be more willing to wait on the fringe benefits .. but how long are people (particularly men) willing to date and get to know someone, without the sexual perks (not just sexual intercourse, necessarily), to figure out if they have found the one?  

think about it.

"hey, check out this guy.. i bet he's a ninety-niner.  it's the difference between guys and girls, otherwise known as a ninety-niner.  okay, a guy could be in a restaurant with his girlfriend or fiance who he's completely in love with, and then he feels a rumble in his bladder and decides, "oh i have to go to the bathroom."   he tells his girlfriend, very politely, "i have to go."  excuses himself.  and, just as he's about to go in, a beautiful woman comes up to him and says,"i've been watching you eat all night, and i was just so hot and bothered, i was wondering .. if i could .. give you head.  in the bathroom, no strings attached.  what do you say?"  99% of guys would say "yes" and go in and get the job.  now, if the situation was reversed, and a woman was approached by a gorgeous guy outside the bathroom, given a similar line, 99% of women would say "fuck you".  women need a reason to cheat, men need one not to."
                                                                                                               ~This Girl's Life